9 February 2017

Large homemade pizza

Saving
money is the theme of the week. We're on The VegHog's CheapEats Week 2017and I'm keen to
cook for little money. There is still time also for you to share your economical recipe until midnight on Saturday. Click on the link to find more info.

By occasionally
making your own pizza, instead of ordering a pizza or eating out, you
can save a lot of money. I am a sucker for a good pizza and am too
often tempted to eat pizza out, but actually a homemade pizza is so
much a tastier that I should make one more often. A pizza doesn't
even take that long to make. When the dough is rising, there's time
to prepare the filling.

The beauty of a
vegetarian pizza is also that you can put any vegetables that you
fancy as a filling. This time I just thought that a plain tomato
pizza would be nice. I made it with a semi spelt-wheat crust, which
was also slightly thicker than usually. I very much enjoyed it as a
dinner and the rest of the slices as a work lunch.

I used a variation
of tomatoes in this pizza and slow-baked some of the halved cherry
tomatoes in order to make them a little bit like sundried tomatoes
(kind of like in this Oven Tomatoes recipe, but I didn't quite
bake them as long as in that recipe).

Tomato pizza

Dough:

200 g spelt flour

200 g wheat flour

1 tbsp dry yeast

1 tsp salt

300 ml lukewarm
water

2 tbsp olive oil

Mix the dry
ingredients. Then add the water and knead. Then also add the olive
oil and knead a little more. Let rise under a teatowel for about an
hour.

Filling:

200 g selected
tomatoes

½ cup tomato
sauce

200 g mozzarella

Slice the tomatoes
thinly. Make the tomato sauce or use a ready made sauce. Grate the
mozzarella.

Roll out the pizza
dough and put the fillings on the top. Bake at 220 C for about 10
minutes.

2 comments:

Looks lovely - you have captured the melty cheese perfectly in your top photo - takeaway pizza is ridiculously pricey compared to making it at home and I have had too many long waits to even feel it is quicker.

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